The story of our success

At MACOGA, we are extremely proud of our heritage and the company we’ve become today. Throughout our history, it has been the dedication of our family and team members that has allowed us to grow into a leading global manufacturer of Expansion Joints.

The beginnings 1960-1970

Coming from humble beginnings, our history dates back to the 60s when the founders, Manuel Concheiro and his sons Mario and Carlos established a petrol station and a small workshop dealing with technical products for serving the Spanish industry.

This space housed some of the company’s first breakthrough expertise and big ideas that would later come into the present production of Expansion Joints.

The beginnings   1960-1970
The beginnings   1960-1970

First factory 1970-1980

The founders decided to build a first factory on the outskirts of the village.

Thanks to their determination and enthusiasm, the small company soon grew and early in the 70’s the first Expansion Joints were designed, manufactured and shipped from MACOGA.

The beginnings   1960-1970
The beginnings   1960-1970
The beginnings   1960-1970
The beginnings   1960-1970
The beginnings   1960-1970

Thinking global 1980-1990

From the very beginning the founders had an international and global vision of the business. Exports were initiated and since 1980 Europe and America became our main markets.

Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels. Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels. Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.

Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.

Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.

New technologies R&D – Quality Certifications 1990-2000

This was the start of a decade of change. MACOGA grows exponentially. The strategy of investing in innovation, development of new machines, construction of new buildings is a great success and puts us in the pole position.

Innovation is considered a strategic value for MACOGA and is a fundamental tool to guarantee the efficiency and competitiveness of the company.

MACOGA develops many innovative technologies and design and manufacturing of Expansion Joints became our area of expertise.

In the same decade, already aware of the need for certification of our quality system and our products, we started certification processes with great success, obtaining in 1991 TÜV AD-Merkbaltter, in 1994 ISO 9001, in 1997 ASME U Stamp and in 2002 CE Marking.

Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.
Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.

Quality Certificates

Member of EJMA

High Tech Expansion Joints became our core business 2000-2010

With an unrivalled and virtually unlimited manufacturing capacity we specialize in High Tech Expansion Joints for complex processes and environments, high temperature, high pressure, etc. and focus on large diameters, special materials, etc. for any industrial application.

In addition to special units, our production range covers all types of expansion joints, from the simplest standard to the most complex ones.

Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.
Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.

A World Leader 2010-2020

Great goals are achieved during this period.

In this decade we became a world leader in the manufacture of Expansion Joints.

For more than 50 years, we have been developing solutions and manufacturing Expansion Joints for every industrial application and today we support customers in over 90 countries around the globe.

Throughout this journey, we’ve grown with our customers, we have developed many innovative technologies and design and manufacturing of Expansion Joints became our area of expertise.

What we do

We are leaders in designing, manufacturing and delivering Metal and Rubber Expansion Joints to customers on a global scale.

We pride ourselves on providing our customers with the widest range of Expansion Joints and On-Site Services offering engineered solutions and unrivaled customer service.

Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.
Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.
Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.
Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.

Facilities

From raw material to final product, all under one roof.

We own all processes involved in the production of every expansion joint that departs our premises.

One of MACOGA's main success factors is our modern and constantly improving machinery, technical equipment and facilities.

Using high-tech equipment we offer our customers competitive products of the highest quality.

Our production centre is equipped with modern automated machinery and equipment from the world's leading manufacturers as well as countless machines designed by our engineers and manufactured by ourselves specifically to manufacture expansion joints.

Some highlights of our facilities:

  • Three buildings 1.500 m² (16,000 sqft) offices.
  • Production plant 25.000 m² (270,000 sqft) covered
  • Over 80.000 m² (860,000 sqft) open areas
  • Bellows Hydroforming machines
  • Bellows Expander machines
  • Bellows Rolling machines
  • CNC Lathes up to diameter 6 m
  • CNC Machining centers
  • Milling machines
  • High Performance Automatic welding equipment
  • Automatic Submerged Arc Welding machines
  • 38 Bridge cranes to manage fabricated parts weighing up to 60 tonnes
  • Shotblasting and painting chamber with temperature and humidity control
  • Pickling and Passivation area
  • X-Ray bunker
  • Hydrotesting benches
  • Test bunker
  • Plasma cutting
  • Oxygen cutting
  • Packing production area

We have excellent in-house facilities and machinery which empower our team to deliver high quality expansion joints.

We are conveniently located in NW Spain near two international airports (SCQ and LCG) and two deep-water oceanic seaports (Vigo and La Coruna).

Health & Safety

Health & Safety

Ensuring the health, safety and security of our employees, and protecting the environment are fundamental priorities for MACOGA.

We uphold these values in the same way that we ensure the quality of our work: by implementing rigorous controls through every phase of our production processes.

Our people receive training on how to perform their jobs safely, properly and in compliance with environmental regulations. Safety is the responsibility of every employee at MACOGA, and “zero incidents” is our foremost goal.

Environmental protection

Environmental protection

Environmental protection is part of our corporate citizenship.
Protecting the environment is one of MACOGA’s fundamental priorities.

We believe environmental responsibility goes beyond regulatory compliance. We continually strive to meet and where practicable exceed strict safety, health and environmental performance targets and we are committed to continuous improvement in all aspects of our operations.

We are committed to ensuring that our facilities have as low an impact as possible on local people and the environment.

We recycle paper, plastic, packaging, batteries, etc. in our offices and all the waste generated during the production process receives its corresponding legally mandatory collection and recycling.

The dangerous toxic waste generated (oil, picklers, paint strippers, etc.) is treated in strict accordance with the Environmental Directives, 100% of our steel waste is recycled and reused in other areas of the industry, we have special zones designed to prevent certain production processes from emitting harmful and pollutant elements into the atmosphere (paint cabin and plasma cutting machinery with highly efficient purifying filters, X Ray bunker, etc.) and we have emergency plans for critical situation that imply possible environmental impact.

References

Our expansion joints are present in more than 90 countries across all continents performing demanding tasks and we build this global experience into every expansion joint and support service that bears our name. We listen and learn about the challenges our customers face and strive to help meet them.

MACOGA is always ready to provide support exceeding customer expectations.

We strongly believe in developing long-term partnerships with our clients in order to provide them with lasting strategic benefits. We believe our reference list of first-class clients below reflects our commitment..

This is a sample of some of our important clients in different key industry sectors:

Oil & Gas

BP • CEPSA • Conoco Phillips • Ecopetrol • Engie • Eni • Esso • ExxonMobil • GALP • Gazprom Neft • Hellenic Petroleum • Kuwait Petroleum Corporation • Lukoil • MOL • National Iranian Oil Company • Neste Oil • OMV Group • Orpic • PDVSA • Pemex • Petrobras • Petrogal • Petronas • Petronas • Petronor • Petroperu • PKN Orlen • PKN Orlen • Preem • Qatar Petroleum • Repsol • Rosneft • Royal Dutch Shell • Sarlux • Saudi Aramco • Slovnaft • SOCAR • Sonatrach • Statoil • Total • Unipetrol

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Power Engineering & Power Generation

Abener • Alstom • Andritz • Ansaldo • Babcock Wilcox • Cez, s.a. • Dominion • Dominion Energy • EDF • Edison Spa • Electrabel • Endesa • Enel • Fluor • Fuji Electric • FW Energía • Gas Natural • GE • Honeywell • Iberdrola • Kawasaki Heavy Industries • MAN • MHI • Mitsui • Reykjavík Energy • Saipem • Siemens • Skoda • SPX • Technip • Toyo Engineering

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Engineering, Procurement and Construction

ABB • Acciona • Aker • Amec Foster Wheeler • Bechtel • Bilfingfer • CB&I • Danieli • Enka • Fluor • GS Engineering & Construction • Hyundai E&C • Intecsa • Jacobs • JGC • KBR • Metka • Mitusi • Petrofac • Saipem • Samsung Engineering Co. • Snamprogetti • SNC Lavalin Inc. • Techint • Technimont • Technip • Tecnicas Reunidas • Tecnipetrol • Tekfen • Toyo Engineering Corp. • UOP • WorleyParsons

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Chemical

Air Liquide • AkzoNobel • BASF • Bayer • BP • Dow Chemical • DSM • DuPont • ExxonMobil • Huntsman • Ineos • LyondellBasell • Praxair • Repsol Quimica • SABIC • Sasol • Saudi Aramco • Sinopec • Solvay • Yara International

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Steel & Metal

Acerinox • Alcan Aluminium • Alcoa • Aluminium Bahrein • ArcelorMittal • British Steel • Corus • Direct Iron Reduction Company • Dubai Aluminium • Glencore • Kaiser Aluminium • Kvaerner Metals • Outokumpu • Salzgitter AG • Siderperu • Sidor • SSAB • Thyssenkrupp • U.S. Steel Corporation • Voestalpine • Zinc Corporation of America

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Shipbuilding

Asmar • Blohm + Voss • ENVC Shipyard • Fincantieri • Navantia • Orskov Yard AS • STX Finland

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Defense

Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance • Armada De Chile • Excalibur Army • Lockheed Martin • Navantia • Patria • Spanish Navy

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LNG/LPG

Ecoelectrica • Gas Natural • Sonatrach

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Cryogenic

Argón • Praxair • S.E. Carburos metálicos • Union carbide

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Paper

Ence • Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Co • Kvaerner Pulping • Metso Paper • Millikosky • Portucel Soporcel • Renova • Stora Enso • Svenska Cellulosa • Weyerhaeuser Paper Mill

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Food & Beverage

Aventis • Calvo Pesca • Coren • Helios • Kraft • Nestle • San Miguel • Unilever

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Pharmaceutical

Abbott • Akzo nobel • Celtia • Glaxosmithkline • Merck • Novartis • Pfizer • Procter & gamble • Solvay

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